From flub to fabulous: Zucchini-Parmesan waffles
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I’ve been writing a lot lately about my kitchen flubs. Continue Reading
Single bars and single women
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Before I was old enough to hang out in bars, before I was even allowed to date, I spent many a Saturday night plopped in front of the TV watching SNL. Continue Reading
Clean veggie plate club: Members wanted
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My daughter is one of those uber-healthy girls who runs and does yoga and is never without a snack sack of veggies. She eats spinach for breakfast, carrots for lunch, and kale for dinner, claiming all the while to love her mostly vegan diet. Continue Reading
State Fair diaries: A farewell to barns
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Friday night in the Grandstand we were damp from the evening downpours and happy to take our place among the mostly grey-haired Berk-wearing Boomers that seem to frequent Prairie Home Companion performances. Garrison Keillor spoke a lot about death and endings; fitting if morbid themes as the final State Fair weekend crept up upon us. Continue Reading
State Fair diaries: make new friends and keep the old
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One of the best things about going to the Minnesota State Fair often is that I don’t feel obligated to gorge myself on food. Continue Reading
State Fair diaries: State Fair peeps
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When I first met T he wasn’t exactly a State Fair Peep. Continue Reading
State Fair diaries: Day 1
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The Fair began this year, as it usually does, with friends and breakfast at Salem. Rain and the promise of humid heat kept the crowds away. We spent the morning volunteering at Renewing the Countryside and the afternoon wandering the Fairgrounds searching for old favorites and new possibilities. Continue Reading
A peek at the Cold Climate Wine Competition
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It is a few days before the gates open at the 2014 Minnesota State Fair and I find myself peeking into a conference room at the University of Minnesota. Wine glasses and flutes clink together as official-looking-types wheel carts of red and white samples to the judging tables that flank the room. Grape growers, wine makers, chefs, instructors, and wine-loving volunteers are gathered to help judge the 6th Annual Cold Climate Wine Competition. I can smell wine on their collective breaths and worry that the light fragrance I tucked under my blouse early in the morning will contaminate the judges’ refined palates as they swirl and sip. Continue Reading
Kräftskiva and crustacean slivers
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I woke up this morning with dainty crayfish shards embedded in my fingers. Crustacean slivers are evidence of a good food event in the bearer’s immediate past. Continue Reading
The pizza issue
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Mpls. St. Paul Magazine just released their pizza issue, and online they are asking readers to vote for the best pizza in the Twin Cities with categories like Alt Crust, Chef Driven, and (my personal favorite) Minnesota Style. Minnesota Style is that pizza we know well in these parts but possibly never really named: thin crust, loads of cheese, tangy red sauce, and a square cut that is as practical as a Norwegian farmer (allowing each bite to contain exactly the right ratio of crust to toppings). Continue Reading